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LAURESTINE; or, LAURUSTINUS. — 

 VIBURNUM TINUS. 



Natural order, Dumosce ; Caprifolia, Juss. J 

 genus of the Pentandria Trigynia class. 



" Now, all amid the rigours of the year, 

 In the wild depth of winter, while without 

 The ceaseless winds blow ire" 



Flora garnishes the cymes of the laures- 

 tine with hardy and modest flowers, which 

 seem to say, " I'll tarry with you till your 

 friends return, and cheer the scene with my 

 pale pink buds and pure white petals," with 

 which it ornaments the shrubbery from 

 November's dreary month to the time that 

 Boreas lends to March his strongest breath. 

 We know not how this pretty winter flower 

 stands in the Oral language of the Turks, but 

 we find it emblematical of those British fair 

 who desert the brighter scenes of society to 

 cheer the sorrowing day of the lone widow, 

 or cause the bereft parent to mourn his lost 

 hope with less anguish. We will welcome 



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